All 8 Uses

motive
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Immortal in Death
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A man with motive and opportunity.†
Chpt 5

motive = reason (for doing something)
Still seems to me we're missing motive.†
Chpt 6
The motive's there, the timing.†
Chpt 7
He had motive, he had means, and very likely opportunity.†
Chpt 10
And motive ....you've proven he had the means to his end before her death.†
Chpt 15
He gives us motive.†
Chpt 18
Eve, you've got motive, you've got opportunity, you've got the personality capacity tests.†
Chpt 19
Now I see three potential suspects, all, as it turns out, with motive, with opportunity, and with means.†
Chpt 20 *

Definitions:

(1) (motive as in: What is her motive?)
a reason for doing something
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)
Less commonly, motive can refer to something that causes motion in an inanimate object. Even less commonly, it can refer to a distinctive feature in music, art, or literature.